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PASSENGERS HAVE BEEN allowed to return to Shannon Airport after a brief evacuation this morning.
An unspecified emergency provoked officials at the airport to evacuate passengers at about 7.40am, a spokesperson told TheJournal.ie.
A spokesperson for the airport said passengers and the public had been evacuated after a ‘break glass’ alarm in an operational area was broken, sparking an alarm. It is believed to have been an accident.
Passengers and the public were able to re-enter the building at 8.10am.
No flights have been affected by the incident.
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I told Aunt Mary not to eat beans before travelling. .. Would she listen !!
Toaster?
CIA rendition flight stops off for re-fuelling maybe?
Speaking of airports – I’m stuck here in Waterford airport. Flight to Manchester is cancelled because a bird hit the plane. Need to fly to Birmingham now :(
Well in some ways you should be glad they spotted it, bird strikes as they’re known can seriously feck up a planes engine so you and fellow passengers might have had a lucky escape ;-)
surely the plane hit the bird?
Waterford has an airport!
Waterford has birds?
There’s an airport in Wexford ?
No ones blamed it on the bankers yet?
So what your saying at 7:45 this morning nothing happened at Shannon airport, thanks for keeping us up to speed .
Fag break more like . Place gone to the dogs
Think it happened last Thursday too. Was there around noon and the arrivals hall was deserted !
I can only speculate that they are practicing protocol for the possibility that Snowden might attempt a stop over flight at Shannon on his way to South America.
They will nab him and put him on a flight to the US, out of sight of reporters and anyone with a camera phone.
All 5 of them?
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